*******UPDATE *******
Please do not donate via Pure Charity anymore. Instead, please write a check made out to Rachel Parker with a memo of "Mission Trip". I have only $346 left to raise! Thank you all for your support!

-Rachel

Hello Friends!

This summer I plan to travel to Bangkok, Thailand on a special missions trip for 3 weeks with Life Raft International. In June, I will work with refugees, many of whom have escaped to Thailand after having been persecuted for their faith, who are living in a Safe House established by a small but incredibly dynamic nonprofit started by my friends Chris and Jade Woodruff. I have been able to financially support refugee families for the past year and I'm excited to meet those whom I've had the privilege to pray for and encourage. 

Life Raft International is an organization that helps refugees survive in Bangkok while they wait to obtain official refugee status. If they are caught before obtaining refugee status, they are thrown into cages, separated from their families, and ultimately sent back to their home countries where they face severe persecution.

What I’ll Be Doing in Bangkok for two weeks:
I’ll be partnering with Life Raft and local churches in Bangkok to:  

1) Deliver food to the refugee families who are unable to work.

2) Visit families in detention centers and bring them food, hygienic products, and clean water. The detention centers are filthy and overcrowded cages where refugee families are separated and given little food and water.

3) Encourage and support the 5 refugee families who are living in the Life Raft safe house. The refugee families are forced to stay in doors and hide from the Thai government, forbidden from working, unable to speak the language, desperately seeking resources that will help them survive this city of 6 million.

Help me I'm poor! Just kidding, but if you feel so inclined, I would really appreciate even the smallest support. Thank you so much for being a part of my life! Please feel free to contact me or visit liferaftinternational.org for more information about their work in Thailand. 

-Rachel